William Sage, MD, JD

William M. Sage, MD, JD, an authority on health law and policy, is a tenured professor in Texas A&M’s medical and law schools, a professor by courtesy in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M,  a vice president in the university’s Health Science Center (Texas A&M Health), and the founding faculty director of the university’s Institute for Healthcare Access.

From 2006-2022, he held professorships in law and medicine at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also served as vice provost for health affairs. He was previously a tenured professor at Columbia Law School, and has been a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, NYU and other leading universities.

Prof. Sage is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, where he recently served on the Board on Health Care Services and the Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030. Prof. Sage is a member of the Healthcare System and Value Research (HSVR) study section for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center on bioethics, and a longtime editorial board member of the journal Health Affairs.  Prof. Sage is also an elected member of the American Law Institute.

He has written over 200 articles and has authored or edited four books, including the Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law (2016).

He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College, medical and law degrees from Stanford University, and an honorary doctorate from Universite Paris Descartes.